SMU Law creates student-run helpline providing pandemic related legal advice to the community
WFAA 8 ABC — SMU Dedman School of Law is offering free, coronavirus-related legal information through the school’s first ever “helpline.” The law school launched its COVID-19 legal helpline on June 1. Forty-five law students run the helpline under faculty supervision.
Read More about SMU Law creates student-run helpline providing pandemic related legal advice to the communityLewis and Clark Law Earthrise Law Center files lawsuit to protect Maui dolphins
LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL — On May 21, 2020, Earthrise, and their co-counsel Sea Shepherd Legal, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sea Shepherd New Zealand and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society challenging the U.S. government’s failure to protect New Zealand’s critically endangered Māui dolphin.
Read More about Lewis and Clark Law Earthrise Law Center files lawsuit to protect Maui dolphinsPenn Law professor David Abrams creates website collecting data on the impact of COVID-19 on crime
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — David Abrams, Professor of Law, Business Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, has amassed a trove of valuable empirical data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on crime in the United States at citycrimestats.com.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Taught by Practice Professor of Law Kara Finck, Lecturer in Law Jennifer Nagda, and Clinical Supervisor of La Puerta Abierta Layla Ware de Luria, the Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic (ICAC) offers University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students the opportunity to help vulnerable young people navigate the legal system using holistic advocacy aimed…
Read More about A look at the Penn Law Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy ClinicUCLA Law expands database tracking COVID-19 cases in prison
UCLA LAW — The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, in collaboration with the Bronx Defenders, Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change and Zealous, has launched a new electronic database of COVID-19-related materials designed to help lawyers, advocates, researchers, journalists and others interested in challenging, remedying, or drawing attention to the grave risk…
Read More about UCLA Law expands database tracking COVID-19 cases in prisonFordham Law McGannon Center receives award to support research on internet access for communities
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law’s McGannon Center has received a $50,000 award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support research into the impact of public communications infrastructure projects, including the WiFi kiosk networks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those specific projects aim to improve internet access to communities who might otherwise…
Read More about Fordham Law McGannon Center receives award to support research on internet access for communitiesLewis & Clark Law Criminal Justice Reform Clinic co-files amicus briefs regarding convictions based on nonunanimous jury trials
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Criminal Justice Reform Clinic joined five other organizations, NAACP Oregon, Coalition of Communities of Color, Don’t Shoot Portland, Latino Network, and Street Roots, in filing five different amicus curiae briefs ask the Oregon Supreme Court to hold that all convictions obtained in a trial that included the nonunanimous jury…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law Criminal Justice Reform Clinic co-files amicus briefs regarding convictions based on nonunanimous jury trialsNortheastern Law Domestic Violence Clinic launches COVID-19 Rapid Response project
NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — So Lindauer had an idea—Northeastern would bring the clinic to clients. Working in tandem with the NULawLab innovation hub …they came up with is the COVID Rapid Response Project, a two-stage effort involving a website where users fill out a few forms and choose a convenient and secure time to talk or text.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In its inaugural year, students in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s yearlong Appellate Advocacy Clinic handled a range of cases in state and federal court, with a particular focus on issues of economic justice in the criminal law context. Professor Jean Galbraith teaches the clinic with Ilana Eisenstein L’04. Currently…
Read More about A look at the Penn Law Appellate Advocacy ClinicPenn Law hosts virtual judicial education course on mental health
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — This spring, thanks to cooperative, fast-acting ingenuity from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Judicial Education Department and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty and staff, over 200 trial and appellate court judges across Pennsylvania participated in a continuing judicial education (CJE) course focused on the especially timely topic…
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